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The black boxes kind of look like artifacts however if i highlight the part of the page it is on, the boxes will disappear. It's like part of the page isn't being loaded in properly when i switch back to a page.
Also I know this is unrelated but for some reason one of my folder icons keeps changing, I have it set to a custom icon and randomly it will revert back to being the default folder icon and then sometimes when i click back to my desktop it will have changed back to my custom icon. Anyone have any ideas what that is about? As i said it doesn't matter as its unrelated
Last edited by UnknownAK; 26 Oct 2015 at 14:12.
I have a very similar issue, and I can confirm that this is a hardware problem. My video card chip is busted, as confirmed by a hardware repair store, and both Windows and Linux AMD drivers produce artifacts and crash after a while.
Meanwhile, the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter driver works without a glich in simple desktop applications, and can even handle YouTube. The only issue is the resolution.
Windows 8 users may try a modification of BasicDriver.sys that you can find on github (Google: basic_adapter_driver_modification), which gives you higher resolutions with the Basic Drisplay Adapter, but otherwise you're stuck with the low resolution.
I actually think it's a decent trade-off. If the alternative is not being able to use the laptop at all. I'm sure many laptops with busted video cards may be safely used for office work with this minimal driver.